{"id":406571,"date":"2022-12-03T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=406571"},"modified":"2022-12-03T14:32:57","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T14:32:57","slug":"why-women-of-color-are-missing-from-tiktok-s-stay-at-home-girlfriend-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/why-women-of-color-are-missing-from-tiktok-s-stay-at-home-girlfriend-trend","title":{"rendered":"Why women of color are missing from TikTok&#8217;s &#8216;stay-at-home girlfriend&#8217; trend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>kendelkay\/TikTok, katesthet\/TikTok, rosedavisx\/TikTok, Tyler Le\/Insider TikTok&#8217;s &#8216;stay-at-home girlfriend&#8217; trend shows young women who have opted out of the workforce sharing their daily routines. These videos often portray a lifestyle that has been branded as unattainable to most. The trend has been criticized by some as anti-feminist, but more recent conversations online have focused on race. On November 9, 25-year-old influencer Kendel Kay posted a TikTok video detailing her day in the life as a stay-at-home girlfriend. Her morning routine consisted of leisure activities, like taking an aloe shot, preparing a matcha latte, making her boyfriend coffee, journaling, reading, and an intensive skincare regime. The now-viral video, which appears innocent in intention, sparked a conversation online about the harmful stereotypes some believe this lifestyle promotes. Other videos of its kind began to follow, and the &#8220;stay-at-home girlfriend&#8221; TikTok quickly became a trend. Many online have criticized these videos for what they see as regressive and anti-feminist undertones , but more recently,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trend uplifts women who choose to opt out of the workforce, but it also leaves out women of color.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-tv-videos"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}